Recent content by SouthpawFencer

Regarding the "Punching Up/Punching Down" argument: When you make a claim of superiority over others, either implied of explicit, you are a valid target for satire. When you attempt to impose your beliefs on others, you are claiming superiority over others. When self-described Muslim...

Personally, I thought Blomkamp inserted his social commentary into District 9 with all the subtlety, grace and nuance of a suppository inserted with a piledriver. The constant "HEY, LOOK, IT'S CLEVER SOCIAL COMMENTARY! CAN YOU SEE THE CLEVER SOCIAL COMMENTARY I'VE INSERTED INTO THIS MOVIE! HEY...

Disclaimer: The following comments only apply to a very few people in this thread. Can we PLEASE dispense with the personal attacks on people whose opinion you disagree with? For example: I disagreed with Mr. Dievendorf's premise, and wrote a reply to that effect earlier. That being said...

I very much enjoyed both movies, for different reasons. Alien was certainly scarier, but I feel that James Cameron was wise to not simply rehash the first movie. In taking the second movie in the direction that he did, he played to his own strengths (good action sequences and special effects...

Makers of both video games and movies need to face facts: these are vastly different forms of entertainment, enjoyed in vastly different ways. I'm starting to think that a large-scale failure to comprehend this fundamental point is the reason why it's so rare to see a decent movie based on a...

I believe "at their own expense" means that they can't try to stick any retailers, or Epic, with the expenses associated with recalling and destroying the material mentioned in the judgement. If random gamers offer to toss copies of Too Human into a threshing machine for free, just for the joy...

Maybe Silicon Knights can recoup some of their losses by allowing members of the to, for a fee, destroy some of the physical games that are still in storage. I'm betting that there'd be no shortage of customers willing to pay for an opportunity to take a highly destructive tool to a Too Human...

This situation sounds like a perfect metaphor for EA's anti-piracy efforts to date: EA's incompetency create an opportunity, pirates exploit it, and EA's efforts at damage control screw over legitimate customers while the pirates mostly get away, consequence-free.

Jim: I'm ashamed at you for banging that baby's head on the podium! Everybody knows that the best way to quiet a screeching baby is by applying steady (but very FIRM) pressure on baby's Reset Button (also referred to by some as "the fontanelle" or the "soft spot") until it's still and quiet...

I tend to make "good guy" decisions in most games. Part of the reason is that I feel that, all too often, the Renegade/Evil renegade choices tend to be dumber. In Mass Effect, for example, a lot of the Renegade options seemed to me to be more of "be a jerk for no good reason" decisions...

I've actually given Zed's request and statement more thought, and I'm finding myself disagreeing with it less and less (behold, the power of making your complaint in a reasonable and polite manner)... Did Asura's Wrath REALLY need to use names from Hindu Mythology, or ANY mythology...

I disagree with Rajan Zed's central premise, which I think is incorporated by the following statements: Despite disagreeing with his central premise, I don't have a problem with this guy. He doesn't seem to want to implement a legal ban on the use of religious lore in video games, even if...

Property owners should be allowed to defend their own property with lethal force, if necessary. I do not make this statement in support of vigilantism, but for fear of it. Most people respect the law because they understand that, while no legal system is perfect, that the system strives to...

It's not like the hardware specs (and limitations) of the PS3 weren't known to Bethesda before they began development. The PS3 and 360 have limitations; they're static platforms while PCs constantly and gradually improve from year to year. However, the consoles are a completely known...